You can create a basement finishing with knotty pine. Knotty pine is a soft wood with distinctive knots that add visual interest. Knotty pine boards found in a variety of cut sizes from 1 inch by 2-inch to 1-inch-by-12 inch, and groove and tongue pieces. You can also buy glued lengths of knotty pine as wide as 24 inches. Here are some ideas for basement finished with knotty pine.

Walls Updating Knotty Pine

Tongue and groove knotty pine boards can be installed either vertically or horizontally on basement finishing walls. They can go from floor to ceiling, or used to create a lower, wainscoted wall of pine, upper wall, either painted or papered. Keeping with an Old English theme is, box beams could continue around room, aligned vertically with ceiling beams, creating a visual effect which indicates support beams.

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Tongue and groove boards or wide plank, 1 inch thick knotty pine can be used for flooring. Knotty pine is a soft wood – used for flooring, it requires regular maintenance. If you stain floor or not, you will want to apply three layers of polyurethane, or another clear basement finishing for protection

Finally, knotty pine can be used to create a basement room decor. You can build a Gust avian Swedish-inspired sofa with pillows. Or primitive pine benches sofa and coffee table. How about bookshelves or a toy trunk? All these can be done with same knotty pine used for other elements in basement.